Hi Dave, I am experiencing the same problem on two of my systems running CentOS 5. I get an error message after a long timeout, "could not retrieve mirrorlist". Please let me know if you find a way around this problem. Thanks, David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> To: <centos at centos.org> Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:24 PM Subject: [CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel > Hello, > Today i ran a yum update and installed kernel 2.6.18.53.1 from > centosplus. I then rebooted to ensure i was running it. I was and went to > remove the previous kernel and kernel-devel packages v2.6.18.53 also from > centosplus. In both cases yum gets to the running transaction check then > hangs, i don't get any errors it just sits there. I have to manually kill > the yum process to resolve this. This does not happen with any other > package add/removals. Any suggestions? > Thanks. > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >